mlapoint Scooter Rider
Number of posts : 24 Location : Wausau, WI Points : 3552 Registration date : 2015-05-04
| Subject: Exhaust Gasket? Sat Apr 16, 2016 11:18 am | |
| I had to replace the clamp between the exhaust header and the pipe. I thought I would buy a new gasket as well. I received them both and the clamp works fine. The gasket, on the other hand, fits both places fine,but when I tried putting them together they left the pipe and frame holes 1/4 to 1/2 in. short. I eventually ruined the gasket and now I am thinking of getting a new one, but want to know what I was doing wrong. I tried pushing them together over and over. I tried hitting the pipe with a rubber mallet. Nothing would get me the extra 1/4 in. |
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tinman Silver Wing Guru
Number of posts : 1298 Age : 76 Location : Matheson, Ontario, Canada Points : 6151 Registration date : 2011-11-29
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DickO Founding Member
Number of posts : 1021 Age : 79 Location : Atchison, KS Points : 6986 Registration date : 2008-12-23
| Subject: Re: Exhaust Gasket? Sat Apr 16, 2016 2:38 pm | |
| Also "mlapoint", if you still have it, try using the old one again. Read somewhere on this site that someone had used their old one "several" times over. When I had my muffler off to change the rear wheel I also just used my old one with no ill effects... Sorry, don't know why you would have been coming up short on your bolt holes other than maybe for some reason the gasket is oversized. |
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